HOUSE BILL 134

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2016

INTRODUCED BY

Roberto "Bobby" J. Gonzales

ENDORSED BY THE NEW MEXICO FINANCE

AUTHORITY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING FUND.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three million dollars ($3,000,000) is appropriated from the public project revolving fund to the local government planning fund administered by the New Mexico finance authority for expenditure in fiscal year 2017 and subsequent fiscal years to make grants to qualified entities to evaluate and estimate the costs of implementing the most feasible alternatives for infrastructure, water or wastewater public projects or to develop water conservation plans, long-term master plans, economic development plans or energy audits and to pay the administrative costs of the local government planning program. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the public project revolving fund.

     SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2016.

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